It's amazing how many movies require a mega doze of "disbelief suspension" on the part of the audience. Unless you become a willing "partner in crime," many thrillers and murder mysteries just plain don't work.

As a screenwriter I would never have dared to include su...]]> http://hollywood.zersal.com/2008/11/19/suspending-disbelief-in-movies/ Mel Gibson and Michael Moore have become the two most feared men in Hollywood. Both have managed to make huge sums of money from personal projects and both have been snubbed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Moore and Gibson may be victims of a very old rule with a new twist. If...]]> http://hollywood.zersal.com/2008/11/18/the-two-most-feared-men-in-hollywood/ Often times when movie makers choose to make movies about famous characters, like Spiderman, things go wrong. After all, the fans of Spiderman expected a lot when they heard about the movie coming out. The good news is that with Spiderman, and Spiderman 2, the creators got it right. Fans were thr...]]> http://hollywood.zersal.com/2008/11/17/spiderman/ Bette Midler was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on December 1st, 1945. Her ancestry is Jewish and Italian. She was named after Bette Davis, though Midler doesn't pronounce the second "e" in her name like with Davis. She is the third of four children.

For college she attended the University of ...]]> http://hollywood.zersal.com/2008/11/16/is-there-anyone-more-talented-than-bette-midler/ European and Hollywood movies are very different in styles and in concepts. American films are popular worldwide, whereas European ones are mostly watched in Europe only. European films started to be looked at as a separate division in 1950s. In this article I will take a closer look at the contr...]]> http://hollywood.zersal.com/2008/11/15/european-vs-hollywood-cinema/ Something's Gotta Give is a hilarious and dramatic look at the life of a writer who falls for a man that her daughter dated. The man happens to be much older than her daughter, and much closer to her age. The dramatic events lead them to spend a lot of time together and develop an interesting re...]]> http://hollywood.zersal.com/2008/11/14/somethings-gotta-give/ Folks are so diverse in 2005, which means that there's never just one hair style trend that's hot at any given time. All of history is fair game for re-invention. Truly, there's not much that hasn't been done before. Yet somehow, each incarnation takes on a fresh spin, and emerges fabu...]]> http://hollywood.zersal.com/2008/11/13/5-hot-hair-style-trends-for-2005/ Without a doubt, the King of Reality TV is Mark Burnett. From Survivor to The Apprentice to The Contender, Mark Burnett has been the man behind some of the most successful shows in history. But how did he do it? How did this former British Paratrooper become one of the most powerful men in Televi...]]> http://hollywood.zersal.com/2008/11/12/unlocking-mark-burnetts-secrets-of-success/ SORRY, WRONG NUMBER (1948) stars the unforgettable Barbara Stanwyck as Leona Stevenson, the bed-ridden daughter whose father owns the largest drug company in the country, and Burt Lancaster who plays her husband Henry Stevenson, a handsome guy from the wrong side of the tracks with whom Leona fal...]]> http://hollywood.zersal.com/2008/11/11/movie-review-sorry-wrong-number-1948/ I'm reeling with the delight and the unexpected impact of discovering a rare artist of immense depth and humanity -- Krzysztof Kieslowski, the Polish movie director who gave the world his famous Three Colors Trilogy (Blue, White, Red) and the 10-film series Deca...]]> http://hollywood.zersal.com/2008/11/10/in-praise-of-kieslowski/ Fame, fortune, and power stand at the top of the heap when it comes to what we call success. Most peculiar of these is fame. It seems the rule, which is rarely spoken out loud is, anyone who is very well known didn't get that way because they did everything wrong. Oh really! Who hasn't heard th...]]> http://hollywood.zersal.com/2008/11/09/hollywood-celebrities-and-pop-culture-the-rape-of-the-mind/ Corporations are willing to pay substantial amounts of money to prominent personalities so that consumers will relate the brand with their favorite star, and thus will be more likely to buy the product. The buying public imparts credibility to the celebrity because of his or her charisma as...]]> http://hollywood.zersal.com/2008/11/08/celebrities-cant-have-it-both-ways/